On This Day: 08 Oct

Doctor Who: The Widow's Curse (Panini Books; 2009)
The Knights of Pendragon: Once and Future (Panini Books; 2009)
Wallace and Gromit: The Complete Newspaper Comic Strips Collection (Titan Comics) vol.1 (2013) ISBN-10: 1782760326

First Appearances:

Tommy Hawk and Mo Cassin in Valiant (Fleetway Publications Ltd.) #02 (13 Oct 1962).
Ebony (Ebony Jones) in The Crunch (D.C. Thomson & Co., Ltd.) #39 (13 Oct 1979).
Hell Trekkers in 2000 A.D. (IPC Magazines Ltd.) Prog 387 (13 Oct 1984).

Births:

Serge Drigin (1894); Hilda Boswell (1903); Rene Cloke (1904); Franco Cosimo Panini (1931); Alessandro Biffignandi (1935); Harvey Pekar (1939); Malcolm Douglas (1954); Tim Sanders (1957); Tony Luke (1966)

Deaths:

George du Maurier (George Louis Palmella Busson du Maurier; 1896); Edward George Warris Hulton (1988)

Notable Events:

Larry Donovan jumped from Waterloo Bridge dressed as Ally Sloper, as part of a promotion, in 1887.
Bryan Talbot gave a talk at Murray Library Lecture Theatre, City Campus, University of Sunderland, in 2014.
Michael Moorcock's New Worlds online magazine announced its demise, in 2014, in a Facebook post. Despite the title of the e-magazine, Michael Moorcock had no involvement in the content.